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Just had a thought that, apart from Isaiah being very badly indexed, missing from the census, at sea, etc., he might have been working on the night shift in the coal mine. I recall that I couldn't find a coal mining ancestor on one of the early censuses and was told that the mine foreman was instructed to list all miners working in the colliery at midnight on census day/night and enter them. Not sure how many conformed to this or how true it was but this could explain the absence.

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